FirstSigns

Our very first calendar, for your wall. Beautifully put together and printed for you.

‘Web hit stats’ can be misleading, but we’re thrilled to see so may visitors from different countries.

After several months discussing our plans and ideas for a book for FirstSigns, the actual writing of it has finally arrived! This week Wedge and I will be working together and writing several thousand words a day, so that we can publish the book in time for SIAD 2010.
As with many things it’s the ‘getting [...]

Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) is the 1st of March, 2010. That means that we’ll sell loads of SI Awareness wristbands and keyrings in February.
Which is great! I mean, it’s just fantastic to think so many people will be wearing our wristbands through March – it makes us proud of our members and supporters, and really [...]

We are busy planning for Self Injury Awareness Day on 1st March 2010, and we have loads of great ideas that will help make SIAD 2010 our best ever.

One of these is to produce a FirstSigns calendar, and we thought it would be great if some our members could get involved and help us with [...]

What is it with researchers? Why is it that every study that comes out contradicts the previous one? One month coffee is good for the heart, the next it’s bad. One year mono-unsaturates are good for you, but these days we have to avoid ‘trans-fats’ – whatever they are. More people are staying in the [...]

Coming out about self-injury to the people closest to us is a difficult decision to make. How the other person reacts is bound to have a serious affect on us, be it positive or negative, and so it’s important to think about that first conversation (if possible) before you have it.
Or maybe you aren’t ready [...]

As of today, we are pleased to welcome two new message board mods to our Team. Sartor resartus and FReedomFRIES have joined our Moderating Team. Both sartor resartus and FreedomFRIES are long-standing, valuable members of FirstSigns; they are well liked and respected by members and mods alike, and it’s super to have them join our [...]

Wedge pops in to ask how you feel about websites that claim to be ‘official’ but are really just hobby websites that soon get abandoned and neglected. Don’t you want to be able to trust the organisations on the web?

As many of us know only too well, self-injury often leads to scars; a permanent reminder of our past distress and actions. How we feel about our scars is an individual thing, and there’s no right or wrong way to feel. Some people see them as a positive thing – a sign of survival – [...]